John Hollinger

Adam Silver presented with Sloan Sports Conference lifetime achievement award. We now have something in common besides our haircut.

Those road trips to Slovakia and Finland are gonna be tough for the non-revenue sports.

"We are going to make substantial changes for next year," said Silver, before adding "I am an incrementalist." Notable that be brought up WNBA's use of 2-year records.

Silver on tanking: "it's the fault of this conference" he jokes before noting that tanking has been destigmatized and that this season is a "perfect storm" due to preceived draft strength in '26 vs. '27 and '28.

The next chapter of our Clippers/Aspiration/Ballmer/Kawhi series will be live, onstage, at Sloan.

And on our YouTube channel.

Today — 5:30pm ET 🍎⌚

I have a deep roster of blue, collared shirts

Different checkered blue shirt! HA!!!!

Also need a coffee cup

Lol I swear I have other clothes

Lol forgot the pic

Here's Zarren kicking my ass in curling in 201i9

Fun memory lane trip on the poster here at Sloan. 2009 panel w me, Zarren, Morey, Cuban, and
@deanolytics.bsky.social, with @thesteinline.bsky.social moderating

Dorkapalooza: The Oral History of the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference This is how the revolution was quantified

This oral history of Sloan is great. I remember going to the first one 20 years ago. I think I was the only football guy.

I'm kind of proud of my metaphor in here for what Sloan has grown into.

www.theringer.com/2026/03/06/n...

Already off to a good start as I ran into the great Jackie MacMullan almost as soon as I got here.

Fun day to be in Boston! Sloan Conference today + possible Tatum return tonight! For those of you here at #ssac26 , my panel is at 430 in the Shane Battier Room

shout out to the gold days when you'd be like '"heading into the Spurs' arena now, talk to you guys in three hours"

sadly Vork took the train, so he couldn't stop at the Sbarro by Gate A18 at Logan on his way in.

Oh

SHOES ON

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An inside look at how NFL scouts craft their scouting reports An NFL scouting report can range from traditional sentences to a series of color-coded messages, shorthand terms and emoji-like tags.

Fascinating read here on how NFL teams scout for draft, which is generally much more involved and complicated than NBA due to the sheer quantity of players they have to process www.nytimes.com/athletic/706...

maybe not. OTOH we got the best player on a Final 4 team with the 45th pick in the draft because people were hung up on his arms being short. Third guy taken from his own team!

wild because Uber wanted like $4,000

Love it when draft world turns on short-arms guys!

Happy Sloan weekend to all who celebrate. Boarding my SEA-BOS flight rn, not sure how long it takes but can't be more than an hour or two, right?

Fun fact: 19 of the NBA's 30 teams now have winning records. For that you can tank the nine teams at the bottom hoarding all the Ls.

SloMo!

Final: Washington 91, USC 72. Trojans actually led by 3 at half; NCAA hopes now circling the drain.

Washington's Hannes Steinbach with 22 points and 24 rebounds in possibly his final home game before turning pro.

I apologize but we're out of rebounds. Hannes Steinbach has them all.

USC getting absolutely bullied by Washington freshman Hannes Steinbach. Just Moses'd himself a putback and his now up to 22 points and 19 rebounds with six minutes still left to go.